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International Print Center New York enters 2005 with the presentation of New Prints 2005/Winter, an exhibition of new prints by twenty-eight artists selected from a pool of hundreds of submissions. New Prints 2005/Winter is the fifteenth presentation of IPCNY's New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions highlighting brand new prints made by artists at all stages of their careers. With this exhibition, IPCNY continues its role as an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary artists' prints, and a central source of information about artists working today in the medium of printmaking. The Selections Committee for this exhibition was made up of the following individuals: Mark Baron, Baron/Boisanté Editions; Dan Cameron, Senior Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art; Agnes Gund, collector and President Emerita, the Museum of Modern Art; Jane Hammond, artist; Randy Hemminghaus, Master Printer, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper; and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Consulting Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A curatorial essay by Dan Cameron, Selections Committee Member, will accompany the exhibition. The artworks included in New Prints 2005/Winter presents a wealth of examples of printmaking techniques. There is a notably strong concentration of woodcut which, although it is the most traditional method of printmaking, demonstrates the relevance of the medium within the context of contemporary art. The large presence of woodcuts also illustrates the range of possibilities available to the artists within that medium, from Erik Edson's crude, visceral and immense hand-printed images of forest animals (Bare and Portion), each printed across two oversized sheets of paper, to Anne Conner's very contained and carefully meticulous laser reduction woodcut, to Jean Gumpper's painterly depiction of reflections in a lily pond. Pattern is a prominent aesthetic as well, from Glen Ligon's Self Portrait at Eleven Years Old, an image in paper pulp of Stevie Wonder's face made up of a dot pattern, to Jo Baer's classical frieze comprised of seven prints revisiting a minimalist image of an urn, to Ted Kincaid's abstract swiggley lines printed in both the positive and negative. Among the numerous print workshops represented, HuiPress in Hawaii is in our New Prints Program for the first time, and we are pleased to show five recent works published by Lower East Side Printshop in New York City. The complete artists' list is as follows: June August, Jo Baer, J. Catherine Bebout, Mildred Beltre, Michael Bramwell, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Ann Conner, Erik Edson, Wanda Ewing, MaryLouise Geering, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Jean Gumpper, Jungil Hong, Ted Kincaid, Robert Kushner, Tony Lazorko, Clara Lieu, Glenn Ligon, Gerald Marcus, Julie Mehretu, Jill Moser, Carrie Moyer, Todd Norsten, Bruce Pearson, Sheila Pepe, Mark Dean Veca, and Jeff Wetzig. With rare exception, prints included in IPCNY's New Prints shows are for sale. IPCNY refers potential purchasers directly to the artist, publisher or gallery supplying the print. IPCNY requires no commission on sales. International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. Through innovative programming, it fosters a climate for the enjoyment, examination and serious study of artists' prints-from the old master to the contemporary. IPCNY offers its members a program of workshop and gallery visits, and has established an informational website and Information Desk available to the public at the gallery. IPCNY depends upon public and private donations to support its programs. The New Prints Program is funded in part with a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The New York State Council on the Arts. The
gallery is located in Chelsea on 26th Street between 10th and 11th
Avenues. Hours are 11- 6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. For additional information,
call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNY's website www.ipcny.org. New Prints
2005/Winter will be posted and documented on the site together with
prior exhibitions presented by IPCNY. January,
2005
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